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SUMMARY:A conversation with Nandana Dev Sen and Suketu Mehta
DESCRIPTION:On Monday\, September 13th at 7pm CDT/ 8pm EST\, Brazos Bookstore will host an online conversation with Nandana Dev Sen and Suketu Mehta to discuss Nandana’s translation of her mother Nabaneeta Dev Sen’s collection of poems\, Acrobat. More information available here. \nNandana Dev Sen is a writer\, actor\, and child-rights activist. She has written six children’s books (translated into more than 15 languages globally)\, and starred in 20 feature films (from four continents\, in numerous languages). She has represented UNICEF\, RAHI and the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights to fight against child abuse\, and to end human trafficking. Winner of the Last Girl Champion Award (and multiple Best Actress Awards)\, Nandana is Child Protection Ambassador for Save the Children India. Nandana is on Facebook\, Instagram\, and Twitter  (all three at Nandana Dev Sen). For news and updates\, please swing by www.nandanadevsen.com. \nSuketu Mehta is the New York-based author of Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found\, which won the Kiriyama Prize and the Hutch Crossword Award\, and was a finalist for the 2005 Pulitzer Prize\, the Lettre Ulysses Prize\, the BBC4 Samuel Johnson Prize\, and the Guardian First Book Award. He has won the Whiting Writers’ Award\, the O. Henry Prize\, and a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship for his fiction. Mehta’s work has been published in The New Yorker\, The New York Times Magazine\, National Geographic\, Granta\, Harper’s Magazine\, Time\, and Newsweek\, and has been featured on NPR’s ‘Fresh Air’ and ‘All Things Considered.’ \nRegister for the Zoom event here.
URL:https://archipelagobooks.org/event/a-conversation-with-nandana-dev-sen-and-suketu-mehta/
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SUMMARY:Nandana Dev Sen & Megha Majumdar at Greenlight Bookstore
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Wednesday\, July 21st at 6 PM EST as Nandana Dev Sen presents Acrobat\, her translation of the poetry collection by her mother\, the beloved Nabaneeta Dev Sen\, in conversation with Megha Majumdar. \nThis is a virtual event. You can join us on Zoom by following the link here. Please also visit Greenlight Bookstore’s website for more information\, here. \nNandana Dev Sen is a writer\, actor\, and child-rights activist. She has written six children’s books (translated into more than 15 languages globally)\, and starred in 20 feature films (from four continents\, in numerous languages). She has represented UNICEF\, RAHI and the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights to fight against child abuse\, and to end human trafficking. Winner of the Last Girl Champion Award (and multiple Best Actress Awards)\, Nandana is Child Protection Ambassador for Save the Children India. Nandana is on Facebook\, Instagram\, and Twitter (all three at Nandana Dev Sen). For news and updates\, please swing by www.nandanadevsen.com. \nNabaneeta Dev Sen (1938-2019) remains one of the most beloved and versatile Bengali writers of all time. Equally expressive in poetry and prose\, fiction and non-fiction\, she has over one hundred books to her credit\, including compilations of poems\, novels\, plays\, stories\, memoirs\, academic essays\, children’s literature\, political columns\, literary translations\, and multiple volumes of her collected works. Her many honors include the Padma Shri\, Bangla Academy Lifetime Achievement Award\, Sahitya Akademi Award\, and Lifetime Achievement Award of the Publishers’ and Booksellers’ Guild. Dev Sen lived a parallel life as a distinguished international scholar and feminist\, and was the Founder and President of the West Bengal Women Writers’ Association\, Soi. \nMegha Majumdar is the author of the New York Times bestseller and Editors’ Choice A Burning. She was born and raised in Kolkata\, India. She moved to the United States to attend college at Harvard University\, followed by graduate school in social anthropology at Johns Hopkins University. She works as an editor at Catapult\, and lives in New York City. A Burning is her first book.
URL:https://archipelagobooks.org/event/nandana-dev-sen-megha-majumdar-at-greenlight-bookstore/
LOCATION:Greenlight Bookstore\, 686 Fulton Street\, Brooklyn\, NY\, 11217\, United States
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SUMMARY:Nandana Dev Sen in conversation with David Ouimet at Community Bookstore
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Tuesday\, July 13th at 7:30 PM EST for a virtual reading and conversation with Nandana Dev Sen and David Ouimet hosted by Community Bookstore! They’ll discuss Acrobat\, a collection of Nandana Dev Sen’s translations of her mother\, Nabaneeta Dev Sen’s poems\, published on May 11th. \nAcrobat is a radiant collection of poetry about womanhood\, intimacy\, and the body politic that together evokes the arc of an ordinary life. Nabaneeta Dev Sen’s rhythmic lines explore the joys and agonies of first love\, childbirth\, and decay with a restless\, tactile imagination\, both picking apart and celebrating the rituals that make us human. When she warns\, “know that blood can be easily drawn by lips\,” her words tune to the fierce and biting depths of language\, to the “treachery that lingers on tongue tips.” At once compassionate and unsparing\, conversational and symphonic\, these poems tell of a rope shivering beneath an acrobat’s nimble feet or of a twisted\, blood-soaked umbilical cord – they pluck the invisible threads that bind us together. \nDavid Ouimet is the author and illustrator of the award-winning Children’s book I Go Quiet\, and the forthcoming companion\, I Get Loud. I Go Quiet was the winner of the 2020 East Sussex Children’s Book Award\, and has been shortlisted for the 2021 Kate Greenaway Medal. An artist and musician\, Ouimet is a graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design\, and his work has been featured on album covers\, books\, and magazines\, and has been exhibited at the Museum of American Illustration. He has scored music for film\, recorded and appeared on numerous records\, and performed throughout the world.\nNandana Dev Sen is a writer\, actor\, and child-rights activist. She has written six children’s books (translated into more than 15 languages globally)\, and starred in 20 feature films (from four continents\, in numerous languages). She has represented UNICEF\, RAHI and the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights to fight against child abuse\, and to end human trafficking. Winner of the Last Girl Champion Award (and multiple Best Actress Awards)\, Nandana is Child Protection Ambassador for Save the Children India and is active on Facebook\, Instagram\, and Twitter.
URL:https://archipelagobooks.org/event/nandana-dev-sen-in-conversation-with-david-ouimet-at-community-bookstore/
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SUMMARY:Robert Croll and Alejandro de Acosta at Malaprop's
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Thursday\, June 22nd at 6 PM EST for a conversation between Robert Croll and Alejandro de Acosta\, hosted by Malaprop’s Bookstore! They’ll discuss Croll’s translation of Animals\, a collection of Hebe Uhart’s cronicas\, published on June 22nd. \nHebe Uhart’s Animals tells of piglets that snack on crackers\, parrots that rehearse their words at night\, southern screamers that lurk at the front door of a decrepit aunt’s house\, and\, of course\, human animals\, whose presence is treated with the same inquisitive sharpness and sweetness that marks all of Uhart’s work. Animals is a joyous reordering of attention towards the beings with whom we share the planet. In prose that tracks the goings on of creatures who care little what we do or say\, a refreshing humility emerges\, and with it a newfound pleasure in the everyday. Watching a whistling heron\, Uhart writes\, “that rebellious crest gives it a lunatic air.” Birds in the park and dogs in the street will hold a different interest after reading Uhart’s blissful foray into playful zoology. \n\nRobert Croll is a writer\, translator\, and artist originally from Asheville\, North Carolina. He first came to translation while studying at Amherst College\, where he focused on the short fiction of Julio Cortázar. Along with Animals\, Croll has recently translated Gustavo Roldan’s picture book Juan Hormiga\, published by Elsewhere Editions\, the children’s imprint of Archipelago Books. He is also the translator of several works by Ricardo Piglia including The Diaries of Emilio Renzi\, published by Restless Books. \nAlejandro de Acosta is a teacher\, writer\, and translator\, in no particular order; he also works in publishing. In Austin\, Texas he founded mufa::poema\, a micropress that freely distributed a dozen poetry and prose chapbooks. His poetry translations include Micrograms by Jorge Carrera Andrade and Five Meters of Poems by Carlos Oquendo de Amat. He teaches creative writing in the low-residency MFA program at the Pacific Northwest College of Art—and elsewhere. \n\n 
URL:https://archipelagobooks.org/event/robert-croll-and-alejandro-de-acosta-at-malaprops/
LOCATION:Malaprop’s Bookstore/Cafe\, 55 Haywood Street\, Asheville\, NC\, United States
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SUMMARY:A Conversation with Karthika Naïr and Nandana Dev Sen\, Hosted by Elliott Bay Bookstore
DESCRIPTION:On Saturday\, June 12 at 5:00PM EST\, the Elliott Bay Bookstore will host a conversation with Nandana Dev Sen and Karthika Naïr to discuss Nandana’s translation of Acrobat by Nabaneeta Dev Sen.  \nNANDANA DEV SEN is a writer\, actor and child-rights activist. She translated Nabaneeta Dev Sen’s Make Up Your Mind\, and authored six children’s books\, translated into more than 15 languages globally. An award-winning actor\, Nandana has starred in 20 feature films from four continents\, and in multiple languages. Nandana is Child Protection Ambassador for Save the Children\, India. She has partnered with UNICEF\, Apne Aap International and National Commission for Protection of Child Rights to fight against child abuse\, and to end human trafficking. Winner of the Last Girl Champion Award\, Nandana has served on the jury of several child-rights commissions\, global film festivals and international literary awards\, including the DSC Prize. \nKarthika Naïr is a French-Indian author and poet. Her poetry has been widely anthologised across the world\, including in Granta\, Prairie Schooner\, Poetry Review (UK)\, and The Literary Review (USA). She has also served as a principal scriptwriter for choreographer Akram Khan’s DESH and Chotto Desh. In 2019\, she published her award-winning Until the Lions: Echoes from the Mahabharata\, which Archipelago published in 2019. Alongside her writing\, Naïr is a dance producer and curator.
URL:https://archipelagobooks.org/event/elliott-bay-bookstore-hosts-karthika-nair-and-acrobats-nandana-dev-sen/
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: David Colmer to be presented The James Brockway Prize
DESCRIPTION:David Colmer has been recognized for his prolific poetry translations with the James Brockway Prize! The award\, run by the Dutch Foundation for Literature\, is valued at 5\,000 euros and will be presented in Rotterdam at this week’s edition of the Poetry International Festival\, on Saturday\, June 12 at 3:15 p.m. (BST). The program will be broadcasted online\, with a video link available from www.poetry.nl. \n\nDavid Colmer is a writer and translator. He translates Dutch literature in a wide range of genres including literary fiction\, nonfiction\, children’s books\, and poetry. He is a four-time winner of the David Reid Poetry Translation Prize\, and received the 2009 Biennial NSW Premier and PEN Translation Prize. His translation of Gerbrand Bakker’s The Twin (Archipelago) was awarded the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and he received—along with Gerbrand Bakker—the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize for Bakker’s novel The Detour. His forthcoming translation\, A Guardian Angel Recalls\, is available for pre-order here.
URL:https://archipelagobooks.org/event/virtual-event-david-colmer-to-be-presented-the-james-brockway-prize/
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SUMMARY:Andrea Bajani and Sasha Frere-Jones at Politics and Prose Bookstore
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Thursday\, June 10th at 6 PM EST for a conversation between Andrea Bajani and Sasha Frere-Jones\, hosted by Politics and Prose Bookstore! They’ll discuss Bajani’s forthcoming novel\, If You Kept a Record Of Sins\,  out March 23rd\, 2021. \nThis is a virtual event. A link to join hasn’t been created yet\, but we’ll post it here when it is. \nA sly\, prismatic novel that Jhumpa Lahiri says “accumulates with the quiet urgency of a snowstorm\,” Bajani’s If You Kept a Record of Sins\, translated by Elizabeth Harris\, records the indelible marks a mother leaves on her son after she abandons their home in Italy for a business she’s building in Romania. \nAndrea Bajani is one of the most respected and award-winning novelists and poets of contemporary Italian literature. He is the author of four novels and two collections of poems. His novel\, If You Kept a Record of Sins\, has brought him a great deal of attention. In just a few months\, the book won the Super Mondello Prize\, the Brancati Prize\, the Recanati Prize and the Lo Straniero Prize. His works have been translated into many languages. He now lives in Houston and teaches at Rice University. \nSasha Frere-Jones is a writer and musician from New York. He lives with his wife in the East Village.
URL:https://archipelagobooks.org/event/andrea-bajani-and-sasha-frere-jones-at-politics-and-prose-bookstore/
LOCATION:Politics and Prose Bookstore\, Washington\, DC\, United States
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SUMMARY:Scholastique Mukasonga and Jeanne-Marie Jackson at City of Asylum's Literary Translation Festival
DESCRIPTION:  \nPlease join us on Sunday\, May 16th at 2PM EST\, for a conversation between Scholastique Mukasonga and Jeanne-Marie Jackson at City of Asylum’s literary translation festival. Register for free here! \n  \nBorn in Rwanda in 1956\, Scholastique Mukasonga experienced from childhood the violence and humiliation of the ethnic conflicts that shook her country. In the aftermath of the brutal genocide of the Tutsi\, Mukasonga learned that 37 of her family members had been massacred. Her first novel\, Our Lady of the Nile\, was adapted into a film by Atiq Rahimi in 2019. The New York Times named her memoir Cockroaches one of the “50 Best Memoirs of the Past 50 Years.” In 2019\, The Barefoot Woman was a finalist for the National Book Award for Translation. In 2019\, her novel Our Lady Of The Nile was adapted into a film by Atiq Rahimi. \nJeanne-Marie Jackson is a literary critic and professor of world literature at Johns Hopkins University. Her work addresses questions of comparative method\, literature and philosophy\, and interpretive scale\, mainly in the framework of African literature and intellectual history. Alongside her expertise in anglophone African writing\, Jackson works across Russian\, Afrikaans\, Shona\, and Anglo-Fante traditions\, and has new projects on the horizon that draw on each. She is editor of the “Field Reports” blog for Modernism/modernity\, and has published work in venues such as NOVEL; Research in African Literatures; Modernism/modernity; The Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry; Comparative Literature Studies; Studies in the Novel; JNT: Journal of Narrative Theory; n+1; Public Books; 3:AM Magazine; Popula; and The Conversation – Africa.
URL:https://archipelagobooks.org/event/scholastique-mukasonga-and-jeanne-marie-jackson-at-city-of-asylums-literary-translation-festival/
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SUMMARY:A conversation with Nandana Sen and Naomi Shihab Nye
DESCRIPTION:On Thursday\, May 13th at 7pm EST\, Seminary Co-op and the University of Chicago’s International House will host an online conversation with translator Nandana Dev Sen and Naomi Shihab Nye about Acrobat\, a luminous collection of poetry by Nandana’s mother\, Nabaneeta Dev Sen. Acrobat is available for pre-order at Seminary Co-op here. \nNaomi Shihab Nye is the Young People’s Poet Laureate of the United States (Poetry Foundation/Chicago). She recently received the Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Books Critics Circle. Her most recent books are Everything Comes Next\, Collected & New Poems\, Cast Away\, The Tiny Journalist\, and Voices in the Air – Poems for Listeners. \nNandana Dev Sen is a writer\, actor\, and child-rights activist. She is the author of six children’s books\, translated into more than 15 languages globally. An award-winning international actor\, Nandana has starred in 20 feature films from four continents\, and in multiple languages. Nandana\, who works with numerous organizations to end human trafficking and violence against children\, is Child Protection Ambassador for Save the Children India. \nNabaneeta Dev Sen (1938-2019) remains one of the most beloved and versatile Bengali writers of all time. Equally expressive in poetry and prose\, fiction and nonfiction\, she has over one hundred books to her credit\, including compilations of poems\, novels\, plays\, stories\, memoirs\, academic essays\, children’s literature\, political columns\, literary translations\, and multiple volumes of her collected works. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTo join this event\, please go to the following Zoom link:\nWebinar ID: 928 6721 5123\nWebinar Passcode: IHouse\nLink to join: https://uchicagogroup.zoom.us/j/92867215123?pwd=ZVNaWEl1RW5Mb2tLZVo5WUp0N2o2dz09
URL:https://archipelagobooks.org/event/a-conversation-with-nandana-sen-and-naomi-shihab-nye-hosted-by-seminary-co-op-u-chicago/
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SUMMARY:The Indo-American Arts Council Hosts a Conversation Between Abhijit Banerjee and Nandana Dev Sen
DESCRIPTION:On Saturday\, May 8\, at 8:00PM EST\, Nandana Dev Sen will join in a conversation with Nobel Laureate Abhijit Banerjee to discuss her translation of her mother Nabaneeta Dev Sen’s collection of poems\, Acrobat. The Indo-American Arts Council will host the event\, which will stream live on Facebook and Youtube. More information available here. \nNANDANA DEV SEN is a writer\, actor and child-rights activist. She translated Nabaneeta Dev Sen’s Make Up Your Mind\, and authored six children’s books\, translated into more than 15 languages globally. An award-winning actor\, Nandana has starred in 20 feature films from four continents\, and in multiple languages. Nandana is Child Protection Ambassador for Save the Children\, India. She has partnered with UNICEF\, Apne Aap International and National Commission for Protection of Child Rights to fight against child abuse\, and to end human trafficking. Winner of the Last Girl Champion Award\, Nandana has served on the jury of several child-rights commissions\, global film festivals and international literary awards\, including the DSC Prize. \nAbhijit Banerjee is an IndianAmerican economist\, currently the Ford Foundation International Professor of Economics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 2019\, Banerjee received the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences with colleagues Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer “for their experimental approach to alleviating global poverty.” He and Esther Duflo\, who are married\, are the sixth married couple to jointly win a Nobel Prize. Banerjee is a co-founder of Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab\, along with Duflo and Sendhil Mullainathan. \n 
URL:https://archipelagobooks.org/event/the-indo-american-arts-council-hosts-a-conversation-between-abhijit-banerjee-and-acrobats-nandana-dev-sen/
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SUMMARY:Michael Biggins speaking on Newcomers: Book Two with Seattle's Folio
DESCRIPTION:On Thursday\, April 22\, at 6:30PM PDT / 9:30PM EST\, Folio will host translator Michael Biggins to speak on Book Two of Lojze Kovačič’s Newcomers. Tickets for the event are $10\, available for purchase here. The event will stream live on Zoom. \n \nMichael Biggins is responsible as translator for a number of the classics of twentieth-century Slovenian literature published in English\, including Slovenia’s internationally best-selling novel of all time\, Vladimir Bartol’s Alamut (Scala House 2004\, reissued by North Atlantic 2007). In 2021 he became the first non-Slovenian recipient of the Primož Trubar Award for lifelong contributions to advancing and preserving Slovenia’s written cultural heritage. President of the international Society for Slovene Studies since 2017\, and Honorary Consul of Slovenia for Washington State since 2018\, he lives in Seattle and teaches Slovenian language and literature\, as well as Slavic to English literary translation at the University of Washington. He works as curator of the University library’s nationally significant collection of over a half million volumes\, in more than twenty languages\, across the spectrum of Slavic and East European studies. \nLojze Kovačič was born in Basel in 1928 to a German mother and Slovenian father. In 1938 the family was exiled to Slovenia\, where Kovačič lived until his death in 2004. Considered to be one of Slovenia’s most significant authors of the 20th century\, his works often relate to his own life and are constantly concerned with existential topics like life and death\, displacement and exile\, dream and reality. He has been compared to great Central European writers such as Danilo Kis\, Sandor Marai\, Imre Kertész and Ismail Kadaré. His work\, which has now been rediscovered in several countries\, consists of ten novels\, novellas\, essays and children’s books.
URL:https://archipelagobooks.org/event/michael-biggins-speaking-on-newcomers-book-two-with-seattles-folio/
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SUMMARY:Meet the Translator: Michael Biggins presents Newcomers by Lojze Kovačič
DESCRIPTION:  \nThis April 22\, 2021 at 6:30 pm PST / 9:30 pm EST\, Folio Seattle will host a virtual talk by translator Michael Biggins\, who will present Newcomers by Lojze Kovačič. \nThe presentation will focus on unusual\, persistent patterns that Kovačič designed into his 1\,200-page novel and will make the case that at its publication in Slovenia in 1984 it was an unprecedented achievement in world literature comparable in the magnitude of its innovation to Joyce’s Ulysses and Proust’s In Search of Lost Time which\, largely due to its inconspicuous origins\, remains under-recognized even today. \nPurchase your tickets here ($5 for Folio & NOTIS Members and $10 for General Admission). \nMichael Biggins is responsible as translator for a number of the classics of twentieth-century Slovenian iiterature published in English\, including Slovenia’s internationally best-selling novel of all time\, Vladimir Bartol’s Alamut (Scala House 2004\, reissued by North Atlantic 2007)\, Triestine Slovenian author Boris Pahor’s memoir of survival in Nazi concentration camps titled Necropolis\, (Harcourt 1995\, reissued by Dalkey Archive in 2010)\, the three-volume auto-fictional novel Newcomers by Lojze Kovačič (Archipelago 2016-2024)\, Drago Jančar’s epic tale of plague\, religious persecution and survival in late medieval Europe The Galley Slave\, (Dalkey Archive 2011)\, The Errors of Young Tjaž by Austrian Carinthian Slovene novelist Florjan Lipuš (Dalkey Archive 2013)\, several collections of poetry by Tomaž Šalamun\, and most recently The Masochist\, a novel set in fin de siècle Vienna and Central Europe by Katja Perat (Istros 2020).  In 2021 he became the first non-Slovenian recipient of the Primož Trubar Award for lifelong contributions to advancing and preserving Slovenia’s written cultural heritage. \nPresident of the international Society for Slovene Studies since 2017\, and Honorary Consul of Slovenia for Washington State since 2018\, he lives in Seattle and teaches Slovenian language and literature\, as well as Slavic to English literary translation at the University of Washington\, where his primary employment is as curator of the university library’s nationally significant collection of over a half million volumes in more than twenty languages across the spectrum of Slavic and East European studies. \nLojze Kovačič was born in Basel in 1928 to a German mother and Slovenian father. In 1938 the family was exiled to Slovenia\, where Kovačič lived until his death in 2004. Considered to be one of Slovenia’s most significant authors of the 20th century\, his works often relate to his own life and are constantly concerned with existential topics like life and death\, displacement and exile\, dream and reality. He has been compared to great Central European writers such as Danilo Kis\, Sandor Marai\, Imre Kertész and Ismail Kadaré. His work\, which has now been rediscovered in several countries\, consists of ten novels\, novellas\, essays and children’s books.
URL:https://archipelagobooks.org/event/meet-the-translator-michael-biggins-presents-newcomers-by-lojze-kovacic/
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SUMMARY:Andrea Bajani and Nick Flynn at Prairie Lights
DESCRIPTION:On Friday\, April 16 at 8:00PM EST\, Prairie Lights will host a virtual conversation with Andrea Bajani and Nick Flynn. They will be discussing Bajani’s novel\, If You Kept a Record of Sins\, translated from the Italian by Elizabeth Harris. \nAndrea Bajani is the author of four novels and two collections of poems. His novel\, If You Kept a Record of Sins\, has brought him a great deal of attention. In just a few months\, the book won the Super Mondello Prize\, the Brancati Prize\, the Recanati Prize and the Lo Straniero Prize. He lives in Houston and teaches at Rice University. \nNick Flynn is a formidable contemporary American poet\, playwright\, and memoirist. His work is often praised for its swift\, lyrical expression and fractured narrative structures. Flynn has been published in fifteen languages\, and has won two PEN prizes for his memoir and poetry writing. He has also received fellowships from The Guggenheim Foundation; The Fine Arts Works Center; and the Library of Congress\, among others. He now lives in Brooklyn with his wife and his daughter\, Maeve.
URL:https://archipelagobooks.org/event/prairie-lights-hosts-a-conversation-with-andrea-bajani-and-nick-flynn/
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SUMMARY:Andrea Bajani\, Elizabeth Harris\, and Stuart Dybek at Pilsen Community Books
DESCRIPTION:On Thursday\, April 8th at 7PM CST / 8 PM EST\, join us and Andrea Bajani\, Elizabeth Harris\, and Stuart Dybek for a celebration of If You Kept a Record of Sins\, hosted by Pilsen Community Books! \nThis event will be streamed via YouTube Live. Register for free here\, and a link to view the stream will be sent to you on April 8th. Visit PCB’s website for more information. \nA sly\, prismatic novel that Jhumpa Lahiri says “accumulates with the quiet urgency of a snowstorm\,” Bajani’s If You Kept a Record of Sins\, translated by Elizabeth Harris\, records the indelible marks a mother leaves on her son after she abandons their home in Italy for a business she’s building in Romania. \nAndrea Bajani is one of the most respected and award-winning novelists and poets of contemporary Italian literature. He is the author of four novels and two collections of poems. His novel\, If You Kept a Record of Sins\, has brought him a great deal of attention. In just a few months\, the book won the Super Mondello Prize\, the Brancati Prize\, the Recanati Prize and the Lo Straniero Prize. His works have been translated into many languages. He now lives in Houston and teaches at Rice University. \nElizabeth Harris translates contemporary Italian fiction\, including novels and story collections by Mario Rigoni Stern\, Giulio Mozzi\, Antonio Tabucchi\, and Claudia Durastanti. For her  translations of Antonio Tabucchi’s For Isabel: A Mandala and Tristano Dies: A Life\, she has received the PEN/Heim Translation Fund Grant\, an NEA Translation Fellowship\, The Italian Prose in Translation Award\, and the National Translation Award for Prose. \nStuart Dybek was born and raised in Pilsen and Little Village. Dybek is a writer of place and those neighborhoods are central to his fiction and poetry. He is the author of 6 books of fiction including Childhood and Other Neighborhoods\, The Coast of Chicago\, and I Sailed With Magellan\, all set in Pilsen\, as well as the poetry collections\, Brass Knuckles and Streets in the Own Ink. His work has received many awards including a Macarthur “genius award.” He is currently the Distinguished Writer in Residence at Northwestern University.
URL:https://archipelagobooks.org/event/andrea-bajani-elizabeth-harris-and-stuart-dybek-at-pilsen-community-books/
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SUMMARY:A Conversation Between Andrea Bajani and Guadalupe Nettel\, Hosted by Brazos Bookstore
DESCRIPTION:On April 7th at 8PM EST / 7PM Central Standard Time\, Brazos Bookstore will host a conversation between Andrea Bajani and Guadalupe Nettel about If You Kept A Record of Sins\, Bajani’s forthcoming novel. \nAndrea Bajani is one of the most respected novelists of contemporary Italian literature. His novel\, Ogni promess (Every Promise)\, won the prestigious Bagutta Prize. Se consideri le colpe (If You Kept a Record of Sins) won the Super Mondello Prize\, the Brancati Prize\, the Recanati Prize\, and the Lo Straniero Prize. His latest novel\, Un bene al mondo\, is currently being turned into a film. Bajani is also a journalist\, and he published his first book of poetry\, Promemoria\, in 2017. He teaches at Rice University in the Department of Classical and European studies. \nIn 2006\, Guadalupe Nettel was voted one of the thirty-nine most important Latin American writers under the age of thirty-nine at the Bogot Hay Festival. She has lived in Montreal and Paris\, and is now based in Mexico City. Her previous books include Natural Histories and The Body Where I Was Born.
URL:https://archipelagobooks.org/event/a-conversation-between-andrea-bajani-and-guadalupe-nettel-hosted-by-brazos-bookstore/
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SUMMARY:Daniel Handler Discusses Ingrid Godon's  I Wish at the Washington DC Public Library
DESCRIPTION:On Tuesday\, April 6 at 1:30PM EST\, the Washington DC Public Library will host Daniel Handler speaking on Ingrid Godon and Toon Tellegen’s I Wish\, translated from the Dutch by David Colmer.  \nDaniel Handler is a contemporary American novelist\, best known by his pen name Lemony Snicket. He is widely known for his 13-book collection A Series of Unfortunate Events\, which has also been adapted into a film and a television series. Alongside the collection\, his other major works include Adverbs\, a book of short stories\, and Bottle Grove\, a dark comedy and the most recent of his publications. His books have sold more than 70 million copies and have been translated into 40 languages.
URL:https://archipelagobooks.org/event/daniel-handler-discusses-ingrid-godons-i-wish-at-the-washington-dc-public-library/
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SUMMARY:Andrea Bajani and Jhumpa Lahiri at Point Reyes Books
DESCRIPTION:On Tuesday\, April 1 at 9:00PM EST\, Andrea Bajani joins Jhumpa Lahiri to celebrate and discuss his novel\, If You Kept a Record of Sins\, which was translated to English by Elizabeth Harris. Point Reyes Books will host the conversation in a virtual stream on Crowdcast. The event is free\, with a recommended donation to the bookstore or purchase of the book. Register here to reserve a slot! \nAndrea Bajani is the author of four novels and two collections of poems. His novel\, If You Kept a Record of Sins\, has brought him a great deal of attention. In just a few months\, the book won the Super Mondello Prize\, the Brancati Prize\, the Recanati Prize and the Lo Straniero Prize. He lives in Houston and teaches at Rice University. \nJhumpa Lahiri is the author of four works of fiction: Interpreter of Maladies\, The Namesake\, Unaccustomed Earth\, and The Lowland; and a work of nonfiction\, In Other Words. She has received numerous awards\, including the Pulitzer Prize; the PEN/Hemingway Award; the PEN/Malamud Award; the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award; the Premio Gregor von Rezzori; the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature; a 2014 National Humanities Medal\, awarded by President Barack Obama; and the Premio Internazionale Viareggio-Versilia\, for In altre parole. Lahiri’s new novel\, Whereabouts\, will be published on April 27th.
URL:https://archipelagobooks.org/event/andrea-bajani-and-jhumpa-lahiri-at-point-reyes-books/
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SUMMARY:A Conversation with Roger Mello and Peter Sís\, hosted by the Eric Carle Museum
DESCRIPTION:On April 1st at 7:00 PM EDT\, the Eric Carle Museum will host an online conversation between Roger Mello and Peter Sís as they come together to discuss their incredible bodies of work\, what compels them to create children’s books\, and the deeply personal stories they both bring to life in their illustrations. The conversation will be moderated by Lisa von Drasek\, curator of the Children’s Literature Research Collections\, University of Minnesota. Co-hosted by Archipelago Books. \nRoger Mello has illustrated over 100 titles – 22 of which he also wrote – and his unique style and adroit sense of color continues to push the boundaries of children’s book illustration. Rather than relying on written narrative to tell the story\, Mello invites his young readers to fill the gaps with imagination. Mello has won numerous awards for writing and illustrating\, including three of IBBY’s Luis Jardim Awards\, the Best Children’s Book 2002 International Award\, and the 2014 Hans Christian Andersen Award. In 2018\, You Can’t Be Too Careful! was named a Batchelder Honor Book by the American Library Association. \nPeter Sís is an internationally acclaimed illustrator\, author\, and filmmaker. His books\, Starry Messenger: Galileo Galilei\, Tibet Through the Red Box\, and The Wall: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain were each named Caldecott Honor Books by the American Library Association\, and The Wall also was awarded the Robert F. Sibert Medal. Sís is the first children’s book illustrator to win the MacArthur Fellowship\, and in 2012 won the Hans Christian Andersen Award for lifelong achievement. His new book is Nicky & Vera: A Quiet Hero of the Holocaust and the Children He Rescued. \nLisa Von Drasek is the Curator of the Children’s Literature Research Collections. Formerly the Children’s Librarian of the Bank Street College of Education\, Lisa was the teacher/librarian for pre-k through 8th grade as well as a teacher of Children’s Literature\, Storytelling\, and Children’s Book Publishing 101 to students in the graduate school of education. While serving as director of Bank Street’s Center for Children’s Literature\, Lisa founded the Cook Prize\, given to a STEM book chosen by children grades 3-4. She has reviewed children’s books for The New York Times\, EarlyWord.com\, Shelf Awareness and blogs at Blue Ox Review and served as a juror on the Caldecott Committee\, The New York Times Best Illustrated\, the Newbery Committee\, The Ezra Jack Keats Award\, Trudi Birger Prize (Jerusalem Book Fair) National Book Awards for Young People’s Literature\, and American Library Association’s Notable Children’s Books. \n  \nRegister for free here!
URL:https://archipelagobooks.org/event/in-conversation-with-roger-mello-and-peter-sis/
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SUMMARY:A conversation between Andrea Bajani and Edmund White\, hosted by 192 Books / PCG Studio
DESCRIPTION:On March 30th at 6PM EST\, 192 Books will host an online conversation between Andrea Bajani and Edmund White about Bajani’s novel\, If You Kept a Record of Sins\, out March 23rd. \nAndrea Bajani is one of the most respected novelists of contemporary Italian literature. His novel\, Ogni promess (Every Promise)\, won the prestigious Bagutta Prize. Se consideri le colpe (If You Kept a Record of Sins) won the Super Mondello Prize\, the Brancati Prize\, the Recanati Prize\, and the Lo Straniero Prize. His latest novel\, Un bene al mondo\, is currently being turned into a film. Bajani is also a journalist\, and he published his first book of poetry\, Promemoria\, in 2017. He teaches at Rice University in the Department of Classical and European studies. \nEdmund White is the author of many novels\, including  A Boy’s Own Story\, The Beautiful Room Is Empty\, The Farewell Symphony\, and Our Young Man. His non-fiction includes City Boy\, Inside a Pearl\, and other memoirs; The Flâneur\, about Paris; and literary biographies and essays. He was named the winner of the 2018 PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction and is the recipient of the honorary National Book Award for 2019. White lives in New York. \n 
URL:https://archipelagobooks.org/event/a-conversation-between-andrea-bajani-and-edmund-white-hosted-by-192-books/
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SUMMARY:Pierre Joris\, Geoffrey Brock\, and Nathaniel Rudavsky-Brody in conversation\, moderated by Mary Ann Caws
DESCRIPTION:On Tuesday\, December 1st at 6:00pm EST\, Pierre Joris\, Geoffrey Brock\, and Nathaniel Rudavsky-Brody will be joining moderator Mary Ann Caws for a conversation hosted by 192 Books and Paula Cooper Gallery. They’ll be discussing their recent translations of Paul Celan’s Memory Rose into Threshold Speech\, Guiseppe Ungaretti’s Allegria\, and Paul Valéry’s The Idea of Perfection\, respectively. \nThe live event will stream directly on this page. No rsvp or reservation is required. A recording will be posted shortly afterwards. During the broadcast\, please email your questions to evan [at] 192books.com. \n  \nMary Ann Caws is Distinguished Professor Emerita of Comparative Literature\, English\, and French at the Graduate School of the City University of New York. Her many areas of interest in twentieth-century avant-garde literature and art include Surrealism\, poets René Char and André Breton\, Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury group\, and artists Robert Motherwell\, Joseph Cornell\, and Pablo Picasso. Conceptually\, one of her primary themes has been the relationship between image and text. \nPierre Joris has written\, edited\, and translated more than sixty books\, including poetry\, essays\, and anthologies\, including Fox-trails\, -tails\, & -trots (Poems & Proses); Paul Celan: Microliths They Are\, Little Stones (Posthumous prose); Arabia (not so) Deserta and\, with Adonis\, Conversations in the Pyrenees. Joris is the editor and translator of Breathturn into Timestead: The Collected Later Poetry of Paul Celan. In 2005 he received the PEN Award for Poetry in Translation for his translation of Celan’s Lichtzwang/Lightduress. \nGeoffrey Brock is an American poet and translator. Brock has edited three anthologies on Italian poetry and translated the work of Italo Calvino\, Roberto Calasso\, Umberto Eco\, and others. Brock’s poetry has been featured in several anthologies\, including Best American Poetry 2007 \, and his books\, Weighing Light (2005) and Voices Bright Flags: Poems (2014) have received the New Criterion Poetry Prize and Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize\, respectively. His translations have appeared in magazines such as Poetry\, The Paris Review\, and The New Yorker\, and he has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts\, the American Antiquarian Society\, the Arizona Commission on the Arts\, the Florida Arts Council\, the Guggenheim Foundation\, and Stanford University. \nNathaniel Rudavsky-Brody was born in Columbus\, Ohio. He has translated the work of French and Belgian poets\, including Benjamin Fondane\, for which he was awarded the Susan Sontag Prize for Translation. He is the author of two volumes of poetry in French and one in English\, and has worked as a typesetter\, a programmer\, and a private tutor.
URL:https://archipelagobooks.org/event/pierre-joris-geoffrey-brock-and-nathaniel-rudavsky-brody-in-conversation-moderated-by-mary-ann-caws/
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SUMMARY:Scholastique Mukasonga in conversation with Kaiama L. Glover
DESCRIPTION:On November 21st at 2:00pm EST\, Scholastique Mukasonga joins Barnard professor Kaiama L. Glover at Albertine to discuss her latest novel\, Igifu. This event is free and will be in French. You can find the zoom link here. \nScholastique Mukasonga\, born in Rwanda in 1956\, experienced from childhood the violence and humiliation of the ethnic conflicts that shook her country. She settled in France in 1992\, only 2 years before the brutal genocide of the Tutsi swept through Rwanda. In the aftermath\, she learned that 37 of her family members had been massacred. Her autobiographical account Cockroaches (Inyenzi ou les Cafards) marked Mukasonga’s entry into literature. This was followed by the publication of The Barefoot Woman (La Femme aux pieds nus) and Igifu (L’Iguifou)\, both widely praised. Her first novel\, Our Lady Of The Nile (Notre Dame du Nil)\, won the Ahamadou Kourouma prize and the Renaudot prize in 2012\, as well as the Océans France Ô prize in 2013 and the French Voices Award in 2014. In 2019\, The Barefoot Woman was a finalist for the 2019 National Book Award for Translated Literature. \nKaiama L. Glover received a B.A. in French History and Literature and Afro-American Studies from Harvard University and a Ph.D. in French and Romance Philology from Columbia University. She is now an associate professor of French at Barnard College. Her book\, Haiti Unbound: A Spiralist Challenge to the Postcolonial Canon\, explores the Haitian Spiralist movement. She sits on the editorial boards of the Romanic Review and Small Axe and regularly contributes to The New York Times Book Review.
URL:https://archipelagobooks.org/event/scholastique-mukasonga-in-conversation-with-kaiama-l-glover/
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SUMMARY:Andrea Rosenberg with Nicole Rudick
DESCRIPTION:On October 27th at 9:00pm EST\, Andrea Rosenberg joins Nicole Rudick at Elliott Bay Book Company to discuss her translation of Tomás González’ novel Difficult Light. This event is free and will take place on zoom. You can register here. \nFrom one of Colombia’s greatest contemporary novelists\, Difficult Light is a formally daring meditation on grief\, written in candid\, arresting prose. “González’s last two novels\, Difficult Light and The Storm were both hailed as quiet masterpieces at the time of their publication in Colombia.” — Juan Gabriel Vásquez\, The Guardian. \nAndrea Rosenberg is a translator from Spanish and Portuguese. Her full-length translations include novels and graphic narrative by Manuel Vilas\, Tomás González\, Inês Pedrosa\, Aura Xilonen\, Paco Roca\, and Marcelo D’Salete. Two of her translations have won Eisner Awards\, and she has been the recipient of awards and grants from the Fulbright Program\, the American Literary Translators Association\, and the Banff International Literary Translation Centre. \nNicole Rudick is a critic and an editor. She has written widely on art\, literature\, and comics for the New York Review of Books\, the New York Times\, The New Yorker\, Artforum\, and the Poetry Foundation. She was managing editor of The Paris Review for nearly a decade.
URL:https://archipelagobooks.org/event/andrea-rosenberg-with-nicole-rudick/
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SUMMARY:Ivan Vladislavić in conversation with Peter Godwin
DESCRIPTION:On October 15th at 6:30pm EDT\, Ivan Vladislavić joins Community Bookstore to present his new novel The Distance\, in conversation with Peter Godwin. This event will take place on zoom\, you can register here. \nIn his youth in 1970s suburban Pretoria\, Joe falls in love with Muhammad Ali. He diligently scrapbooks newspaper clippings of his his hero\, recording the showman’s words and taking in his inimitable brand of resistance. Forty years later\, digging out his yellowed archive of Ali clippings and comic books\, Joe sets out to write a memoir of his childhood. Calling upon his brother Branko for help\, their two voices interweave to unearth a shared past. Reconstructing a world of bioscopes\, Formica tabletops\, Ovaltine\, and drop-offs in their father’s Ford Zephyr\, conjuring the textures of childhood\, The Distance is a collision of memories\, patching the gulf between past and present. Meaning arises in the gaps between fact and imagination\, and words themselves become markers of the past and the turbulent present. In this formally inventive\, fragmented novel\, Vladislavić evokes the beauty\, and the strangeness\, of remembering and forgetting\, and explores what it means to be at odds with one’s surroundings. \nIvan Vladislavić was born in Pretoria in 1957 and lives in Johannesburg\, where he works as a writer and editor. His books include the novels The Restless Supermarket\, The Exploded View and Double Negative\, and a compendium of short stories titled Flashback Hotel. In 2006\, he published Portrait with Keys\, a sequence of documentary texts on Johannesburg. He has edited books on architecture and art\, and sometimes works with artists and photographers. TJ/Double Negative\, a joint project with photographer David Goldblatt\, received the 2011 Kraszna-Krausz Award for best photography book. His work has also won the Sunday Times Fiction Prize\, the Alan Paton Award\, the University of Johannesburg Prize\, and\, most recently\, a 2015 Windham Campbell Prize for fiction. \nPeter Godwin is an award-winning author and journalist. Born and raised in Zimbabwe\, he was a foreign correspondent for the Sunday Times and a founding presenter and writer of Assignment/Correspondent\, BBC television’s premier foreign affairs program. Godwin is the author of six nonfiction books\, including Mukiwa which was an international bestseller and winner of the George Orwell Prize for political writing and the Esquire-Apple-Waterstone’s Non-Fiction Award. His book The Fear: Robert Mugabe and the Martyrdom of Zimbabwe\, was selected by the New Yorker as a best book of the year. \nclick here for the Zoom registration link
URL:https://archipelagobooks.org/event/ivan-vladislavic-in-conversation-with-peter-godwin/
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Elias Khoury in conversation with Robyn Creswell
DESCRIPTION:On October 13\, 2020 at 6 PM EST\, 192 Books and Paula Cooper Studios are hosting a virtual conversation between Elias Khoury and Robyn Creswell. They will discuss the current situation in Beirut\, and also speak about Khoury’s most recent translated work of fiction\, Children of the Ghetto: My Name is Adam (translated from the Arabic by Humphrey Davies). \nNo registration required. The talk will be live-streamed here\, and a recording will be posted as well shortly after it concludes\, here. \nElias Khoury\, born in Beirut\, is the author of thirteen novels\, four volumes of literary criticism\, and three plays. He was awarded the Palestine Prize for Gate of the Sun\, which was named Best Book of the Year by Le Monde Diplomatique\, The Christian Science Monitor\, and The San Francisco Chronicle\, and a Notable Book by The New York Times. Khoury’s Yalo\, White Masks\, Broken Mirrors\, and As Though She Were Sleeping are also available in English. Khoury is a Global Distinguished Professor of Middle Eastern and Arabic Studies at New York University\, and has taught at Columbia University\, the Lebanese University\, the American University of Beirut\, and the Lebanese American University. As Though She Were Sleeping received France’s inaugural Arabic Novel Prize. Read Elias Khoury’s “This is not Beirut\,” courtesy of the Paris Review. \nRobyn Creswell is Assistant Professor of Comparative literature at Yale University. His research focuses on poetic modernisms in English\, French\, and Arabic. Other fields of interest include the intellectual history of the modern Middle East\, theories and practices of translation\, and contemporary poetry. Creswell is the translator of Abdelfattah Kilito’s The Clash of Images (New Directions\, 2010) and The Tongue of Adam (New Directions\, 2016)\, as well as Sonallah Ibrahim’s That Smell and Notes from Prison (New Directions\, 2013). His essays and reviews have been published in The New Yorker\, The New York Review of Books\, and The New York Times Book Review. Purchase his title\, City of Beginnings: Poetic Modernism in Beirut (Princeton University Press\, 2019) here.
URL:https://archipelagobooks.org/event/virtual-event-elias-khoury-in-conversation-with-robyn-creswell/
LOCATION:192 Books\, 192 10th Ave\, New York\, NY\, 10011\, United States
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Ivan Vladislavić at the Brooklyn Book Festival
DESCRIPTION:  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nOn October 4th at 2pm EST\, Ivan Vladislavić will be featured on the Brooklyn Book Festival’s virtual webinar “Coming of Age in Challenging Times.” \nRegister here.\nChildhood can seem to exist in a bubble\, defined by the rituals of family and home. But outside pressures are never far off. In Romesh Gunesekera’s Suncatcher\, a young boy in 1960s Sri Lanka revels in the thrill of the make-believe\, while gradually becoming aware of the social and religious forces that threaten to divide the country. The protagonist of Ivan Vladislavić’s The Distance obsessively follows the career of boxing great Muhammad Ali in 1970s Pretoria\, his hero-worship a form of defiance in apartheid-era South Africa. And in Suneeta Peres da Costa’s Saudade\, the daughter of an Indian immigrant family in 1960s Angola learns to recognize the rumblings of a growing independence movement and end of colonial privilege. How are these different coming-of-ages marked by their own time and place\, and what do they have in common? Moderated by Eric Banks\, Director of the New York Institute for the Humanities. \nThe Distance takes place in 1970s suburban Pretoria\, during a pivotal decade in South African history of growing resistance to apartheid. Joe falls in love with Muhammad Ali. Diligently scrapbooking newspaper clippings of his hero\, he records and imbibes the showman’s inimitable brand of resistance. In this formally inventive\, fragmented novel\, Vladislavić evokes the beauty and the strangeness of remembering and forgetting\, and explores what it means to be at odds with one’s surroundings.
URL:https://archipelagobooks.org/event/virtual-event-ivan-vladislavic-at-the-brooklyn-book-festival/
CATEGORIES:Featured
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Annual Brooklyn Indie Party
DESCRIPTION:The Brooklyn Book Festival goes virtual this year\, and Greenlight’s traditional Brooklyn Indie Party (ten years and counting) must go online as well! On the Friday night before BKBF\, Greenlight once again partners with CLMP\, as well as some of Brooklyn’s best independent book and magazine publishers\, to throw a Brooklyn-sized party celebrating the spirit of literary independence in Brooklyn with an all-star revue! Each of tonight’s presses will have an editor or publisher introducing a featured author\, highlighting great indie talents including Megan Cummins\, Adam Smyer\, Andrea Rosenberg\, Kim McLarin\, Jenzo DuQue\, JinJin Xu\, Rivka Galchen\, Grace Schulman\, Zahra Patterson\, and more.  All ticket proceeds will be distributed evenly among tonight’s presses\, making this a great way to support our beloved Brooklyn indie community while discovering new talents and seeing old friends.  Join us with the drink of your choice in hand to kick off the Brooklyn Book Festival weekend! \nClick here to buy tickets!
URL:https://archipelagobooks.org/event/virtual-event-annual-brooklyn-indie-party/
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SUMMARY:Translating Intimacies: a virtual panel with Nandana Sen\, Tess Lewis\, and Linn Mehta\, 7 pm EST
DESCRIPTION:  \n \n  \n  \n  \nThe panel will be hosted virtually\, on Zoom\, on September 30th\, 2020 at 7 pm EST. RSVP for free here.\nOn International Translation Day\, McNally Jackson Independent Booksellers are hosting Nandana Sen\, Tess Lewis\, and Linn Mehta as they celebrate linguistic and literary diversity by sharing their translations of works by three beloved writers. \nAn actor\, writer\, and child-rights activist\, Nandana Sen has authored six children’s books\, translated into 15 languages globally. She grew up in India\, England and America\, and has starred in twenty feature films from four continents. The winner of the Last Girl Champion Award\, as well as multiple Best Actress awards\, Nandana has served on the jury of a number of child-protection commissions\, global film festivals\, and international literary awards. She’ll be sharing her English translations of the Bengali poetry of her celebrated mother Nabaneeta Dev Sen (from her previous book Make Up Your Mind\, as well as her forthcoming collection from Archipelago Books\, Acrobat). \nNabaneeta Dev Sen will remain one of the best-loved Bengali writers of all time. She published her first (and very successful) book of poems at the age of 18\, and grew to be immensely popular in every genre\, including novels\, short stories\, literary criticism\, travelogues\, plays\, humor\, narrative non-fiction\, political columns\, and children’s literature. Her many literary honors include the Padmashri\, Sahitya Akademi Award\, Bangla Academy Lifetime Achievement Award\, and the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Publishers’ and Booksellers’ Guild. Dr. Dev Sen was a tireless mentor to innumerable students and young writers\, and was the Founder and President of the Women Writers’ Association\, Soi. \n\nTess Lewis is a writer and translator from French and German. Her translations include works by Walter Benjamin\, Christine Angot\, Philippe Jaccottet\, and Peter Handke. Her recent awards include the 2017 PEN Translation Prize for Maja Haderlap’s Angel of Oblivion\, published by Archipelago Books\, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. She’ll be sharing her English translation of One Another\, a novel by the German author Monique Schwitter. \n  \nLinn Cary Mehta has taught English and Comparative Literature at Columbia\, Yale\, Vassar\, and currently at Barnard College and at NYU\, and worked as a Program Officer in Education and Culture at the Ford Foundation. Having graduated from Yale (BA 1977) and Oxford (MA 1988)\, she received her Ph.D. from Columbia University in 2004 and\, in 2015\, published Poetry and Politics of Decolonization: Tagore\, Yeats\, Senghor\, Césaire\, and Neruda. She’ll be sharing her English translation of the French writer Louis Calaferte\, author of Three Beggars and A Rich Man. \n  \n 
URL:https://archipelagobooks.org/event/virtual-panel-translating-intimacies-7-pm-est/
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Scholastique Mukasonga with Maaza Mengiste\, 6 pm EST
DESCRIPTION:This September\, Brookline Booksmith and City of Asylum Bookstore are hosting a virtual conversation between Scholastique Mukasonga and novelist Maaza Mengiste\, as part of their Transnational Literature Series. \nRegister for free here. \nIgifu\, translated from the French by Jordan Stump\,  is a collection of Scholastique Mukasonga’s autobiographical stories\, which rend a glorious Rwanda from the obliterating force of recent history\, conjuring the noble cows of her home or the dew-swollen grass they graze on. \nBorn in Rwanda in 1956\, Scholastique Mukasonga experienced from childhood the violence and humiliation of the ethnic conflicts that shook her country. In the aftermath of the brutal genocide of the Tutsi\, Mukasonga learned that 37 of her family members had been massacred. Her first novel\, Our Lady of the Nile\, was adapted into a film by Atiq Rahimi in 2019\, and won the 2012 Prix Renaudot Prize. The New York Times named her memoir Cockroaches one of the “50 Best Memoirs of the Past 50 Years.” In 2019\, The Barefoot Woman was a finalist for the National Book Award for Translation. \nMaaza Mengiste is the author of the novels\, Beneath the Lion’s Gaze\, selected by the Guardian as one of the 10 best contemporary African books; and The Shadow King\, a finalist for the LA Times Books Prize\, and one of New York Times’ Notable Books of 2019 and TIME’s 100 Must-Read Books of 2019. She is the recipient of an American Academy of Arts and Letters award\, the Premio il ponte\, and fellowships from the Fulbright Scholar Program\, the National Endowment for the Arts\, Creative Capital\, and LiteraturHaus Zurich. Her work can be found in the New Yorker\, the New York Review of Books\, Granta\, the Guardian\, the New York Times\, Rolling Stone\, and BBC\, among other publications. \n  \n 
URL:https://archipelagobooks.org/event/virtual-event-scholastique-mukasonga-with-maaza-mengiste/
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SUMMARY:MACHINES À ÉCRIRE: Scholastique Mukasonga in conversation with Laure Adler
DESCRIPTION:On September 28\, Scholastique Mukasonga will join Laure Alder for the first of a series of virtual lectures on contemporary writing in French hosted by La Maison Française of New York University. The event will be free to attend\, but registration is required. \nRegistration information and other event details to come. \nBorn in Rwanda in 1956\, Scholastique Mukasonga experienced from childhood the violence and humiliation of the ethnic conflicts that shook her country. In the aftermath of the brutal genocide of the Tutsi\, Mukasonga learned that 37 of her family members had been massacred. Her first novel published by Archipelago Books\, Our Lady of the Nile\, was adapted into a film by Atiq Rahimi in 2019. The New York Times named her memoir Cockroaches one of the “50 Best Memoirs of the Past 50 Years.” In 2019\, The Barefoot Woman was a finalist for the National Book Award for Translation. \nMukasonga will be in conversation with French journalist\, essayist\, historian Laure Adler. Adler has published over 30 books\, among them being the biographies on Marguerite Dura and Françoise Giroux. She is also former director of the France Culture radio station. \nThe conversation will be in French. \nLa Maison Française of New York University has served as a major forum for French-American cultural and intellectual exchange\, offering contemporary perspectives on myriad French and Francophone issues. Its rich program of lectures\, symposia\, concerts\, screenings\, exhibitions\, and special events provides an invaluable resource to the university community\, as well as the general public. This event has been made possible through the generous support of the Florence Gould Foundation. For more information contact maison.francaise@nyu.edu. \nScholastique Mukasonga’s collection of stories\, Igifu\, will be published on September 15.
URL:https://archipelagobooks.org/event/machines-a-ecrire-scholastique-mukasonga-in-conversation-with-laure-adler/
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SUMMARY:Scholastique Mukasonga presents Igifu\, with Martha Cooley
DESCRIPTION:On September 23 at 6:00 pm EST\, Scholastique Mukasonga joins Community Bookstore to present her new story collection Igifu\, in conversation with Martha Cooley. Co-sponsored by Adelphi University’s MFA program. This event will be translated\, and will take place on Zoom. \nRegister for free here. \nIgifu\, translated from the French by Jordan Stump\, is a collection of Scholastique Mukasonga’s autobiographical stories\, which rend a glorious Rwanda from the obliterating force of recent history\, conjuring the noble cows of her home or the dew-swollen grass they graze on. Her writing eclipses the great gaps of time and memory; in one scene she is a child sitting squat with a jug of sweet\, frothy milk and in another she is an exiled teacher\, writing down lists of her dead. As in all her work\, Scholastique sits up with them. \nBorn in Rwanda in 1956\, Scholastique Mukasonga experienced from childhood the violence and humiliation of the ethnic conflicts that shook her country. In the aftermath of the brutal genocide of the Tutsi\, Mukasonga learned that 37 of her family members had been massacred. Her first novel\, Our Lady of the Nile\, was adapted into a film by Atiq Rahimi in 2019\, and won the 2012 Prix Renaudot Prize. The New York Times named her memoir Cockroaches one of the “50 Best Memoirs of the Past 50 Years.” In 2019\, The Barefoot Woman was a finalist for the National Book Award for Translation. \nMartha Cooley is the author of the national bestseller The Archivist\, Thirty­Three Swoons\, and Guesswork: A Reckoning with Loss. The Archivist was a New York Times Notable Book and a New and Noteworthy paperback. Cooley is currently a contributing editor at A Public Space. Her co­translations of Italian fiction and poetry include Antonio Tabucchi’s story collection Time Ages in a Hurry. A professor of English at Adelphi University\, Cooley divides her time between Queens\, New York\, and Castiglione del Terziere\, Italy.
URL:https://archipelagobooks.org/event/scholastique-mukasonga-presents-igifu-with-martha-cooley/
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